A World of Love"In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her mother's one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house. Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as any of the living."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... knew how ? Jane could now be held to be qualified for her first post : what it should be or when she should take it up was not yet decided . Maud , the second daughter , lived at home and attended the local Protestant school . • · · The ...
... knew how ? Jane could now be held to be qualified for her first post : what it should be or when she should take it up was not yet decided . Maud , the second daughter , lived at home and attended the local Protestant school . • · · The ...
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... knew , they had never in all their story ( if indeed story it could be called ) together stopped in the dense green gloom under this particular chestnut tree . " Good , " he said , relieved , “ —that is , if you're all right ? " Though ...
... knew , they had never in all their story ( if indeed story it could be called ) together stopped in the dense green gloom under this particular chestnut tree . " Good , " he said , relieved , “ —that is , if you're all right ? " Though ...
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... knew not what , made islands . Arched stone bridges swooped with the van across rivers as unexpected as they were small - and though for some way yet to the girls ' eyes nothing intrinsically was new or failed to resemble something they ...
... knew not what , made islands . Arched stone bridges swooped with the van across rivers as unexpected as they were small - and though for some way yet to the girls ' eyes nothing intrinsically was new or failed to resemble something they ...
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